Journalist and CNN political analyst Carl Bernstein said Sunday on CNN’s Reliable Sources that “the cold civil war” within the country predates President Trump, but that the president was able to tap into it and use it to propel himself into the Oval Office.
“No president in the history of the United States — in 246 years [sic] — has expressed the kinds of ideas and thoughts and undemocratic notions and authoritarian notions that he has. We need to start connecting these dots. What do people in the country think of this and why do they think and support him, no matter what we do, no matter how outrageous seemingly his conduct is,” he said.
Bernstein said the national media needs to a better job reporting on everyday Americans to find out why they continue to support Trump.
“We’ve got some real reporting to do. We need to make our table bigger in terms of our reportorial landscape and get out of the political weeds,” he added.
In the wake of Robert Mueller’s released report on the two-year investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 election, Bernstein claimed that it showed Trump is a national security threat.
“So you have to ask, at a certain point, when does a political party become beholden so much to a kind of self-interest of one man that it abandons its own principles about putting the country first in terms of what our system of law has always been about in this country?” he said.
